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TITLE : Ngo Dinh Nhu's Statement on Withdrawal of
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SUBJECT NGO DINH NHU’S-STATEMENTS ON WI THORAWAL DATE DISTR. 20 APRIL 1963
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DATE OF LATE MARCH-EARLY APRIL 1963. REFERENCES IN 21858
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PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (1 AND 12 apRit 1963)
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APPRAISAL SEE PARAGRAPH FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 5 860)

THIS Is- UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE... APPRAISAL-OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE PARAS 1 & 3: AMEDIUM LEVEL OFFICtAL (c) OF THE. MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

PARAS 2 &4: . A FIELD GRADE OFFICER (F) OF THE VIETNAMESE | “AIRSFORCE,

I. “AT THE 5 APRIL MEETING OF THE INTERMINISTER AL’ COMMITTEE
ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS, NGO DINH NHU MADE THE FOLLOWING REMARKS" CON-
CERNING AMERICAN FOREIGN AID: vie Ne
A. -THE AMERICANS HAVE STATED THAT THEY ‘ARE GOING’TO REVISE
THEIR POLICY ON FOREIGN AID TO SOUTH VIETNAM; ‘WE WILL REVISE OUR
POLICY ON RECEIVING SUCH AID, WE MUST MARCH TOWARD THE ULT IMATE
OBJECTIVE OF TERMINATING AMERICAN AID'AND THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN

TO DO WITHOUT SUCH ASSISTANCE,

Be AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE PLACED IN NW THE FOLLOWING CATE-

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GORTES OF PRIORITY. FIRST, AID WHICH WE MUST CONTINUE TO: RECEIVE
INDEFINITELY, SPECIFICALLY THE MEANS OF PRODUCT | ON; WE WILL NOT SEEK
A REDUCTION IN THIS CATEGORY, NOR WILLE WE REQUEST AN INCREASE. SECOND

AID WHICH CAN BE EVENTUALLY PHASED OUT. THIRD, AID WHICH CAN BE -
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C. ALL SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED ON THE ABOVE LIST OF
PRIORITIES BUT IT SHOULD ALSO BE MADE CLEAR THAT THIS. POLICY IS NOT
INTENDED TO BE ANTIFOREIGN, FOREIGN AID WILL- PROVIDE WITH THE MEANS
OF PRODUCT ION SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY DO WITHOUT CONSUMER GOODS
ASSISTANCE. WHETHER WE LIKE !T OR NOT, FOREIGN AID WILL CEASE
SOONER OR LATER, AND SO WE MUST STRIVE TO BECOME SELF- SUFFICIENT.
MEANWHILE WE MUST MAKE PROPER USE OF THE AID WE RECEIVE.
2. DURING THE LAST WEEK OF MARCH 1963 THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ON
ORDERS. FROM NHU, ISSUED TO ALL PROVINCE CHIEFS INSTRUCTIONS TO
_ ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO START . PRODUC ING’ WEAPONS , LAND MINES AND AMMUNITION
IN HOME WORK SHOPS WITH THE AIM OF ATTAINING A DEGREE OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
3. ON ABOUT 5 APRIL PHAM DUC TIEN, CHIEF OF CIVIC ACTION IN PHUOC

TUY PROVINCE, ATTENDED A CONFERENCE ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS IN BINH TUY

PROVINCE AT WHICH NGO DINH NHU SAID THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY AMERICAN
ADVISORS IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND THAT BOTH THE NUMBER OF THESE ADVISORS
AND THE AMOUNT OF AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE REDUCED.

4. AT A MEETING OF VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE (VNAF) OFFICERS ON if.

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APRIL 1963, VNAF COMMANDER COLONEL HUYNH HUU HIEN SAID THAT NHU HAD
INSTRUCTED HIGH-RANK ING GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) OFFICIALS AT AS
APRIL MEETING TO PREPARE FOR A COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AID;
NHU SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS USING AID AS A MEANS OF PRESSURING
THE GVN AND WAS IMPINGING ON GVN SOVEREIGNTY, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE
USE OF AMERICAN AID TO PRESSURE A RECIPIENT COUNTRY, HIEN CITED THE
CUTOFF OF DELIVERIES OF GASOLINE TO.THE ROYAL THAL AIR FORCE WHEN THE
THAl GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO AGREE TO SOME (UNSPECIFIED) POINT;

HIEN SAID THAT THE DELIVERY OF GASOLINE RECOMMENCED ONLY AFTER STRONG
THA! GOVERNMENT PROTESTATIONS. (FIELD COMMENT. PRESUMABLY HIEN
REFERS TO THE REDUCTION AND EVENTUAL TERMINATION BY. THE END OF

FISCAL YEAR 1965 OF U.S. SUPPORT OF MILITARY AID PROGRAM POL AND
MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE THA! GOVERNMENT, )

5. AFTER THE MEETING SEVERAL VNAF OFFICERS, INCLUDING MAJOR DANG
DINH LINH, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MATERLAL, MAJOR TRAN DO CUNG,
ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, AND CAPTAIN HA DUONG DOAN, DEPUTY CHIEF
. OF STAFF FOR BUDGET AND FINANCE, AGREED THAT THE VNAF WOULD BE UNABLE
“TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS WITHOUT AMERICAN SUPPORT AND THAT, IN. FACT,

ANY WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN SUPPORT WOULD.RESULT.IN COLLAPSE-OF THE
REGIME. | ee _ san
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te APPRAISAL? rT 1S PROBABLY TRUE THAT NHU “MADE THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED
IN PARAGRAPHS 1 AND 3 AND THAT INSTRUCTIONS WERE ISSUED AS DESCRIBED IN
PARAGRAPH 2, IT 1S POSSIBLY TRUE THAT NHU MADE THE STATEMENTS IN PARAGRAPHS
4 AND 5 CONCERNING THE UNITED STATES USING AlD. TO PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT
OF VIETNAM BUT IT 1S DOUBTFUL THAT HE TOLD GVN OFFICIALS TO PREPARE FOR A

COMPLETE WITHORAWAL OF AMERICAN AIO. THE REACTION: OF THE VIETNAMESE AIR

FORCE OFFICERS TO HIEN'S VERSION OF NHU'S STATEMENTS 1S PROGABLY TRUE.

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